Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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